MPs: e-petitions misleading people
The government’s e-petitions site is misleading people about their chances of influencing policy, MPs have said.
The website creates “unrealistically high” expectations for the impact of submissions and should be changed, according to the Commons procedure committee.
The e-petitions system was set up last summer to make it easier for the public to make representations. When 100,000 signatures have been gathered, the back-bench business committee is notified and has the power to timetable a parliamentary debate.
In a report yesterday, the procedure committee called for more parliamentary time to be allocated for debates on e-petitions, but also criticised the website for stating that e-petitions were “an easy way for you to influence government policy”.
Responding to the report, Leader of the Commons Sir George Young said the system had been a “great success”.
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